January 22, 2020      4:00 PM
8-day reports coming in now for three Texas House special elections
Five of the six reports now online; in addition to the Fort Bend throwdown, Republicans are trying to make inroads in one district and a Democratic intraparty fight is playing out in another
We’re now just under a
week to go before voters make their final decisions to fill the unexpired terms
of three former members of the Texas House.
The nation’s eyes are
fixed on the House District 28 race in Fort Bend to pick a
successor to former Appropriations Committee Chairman John Zerwas. NBC News and the Associated
Press ran national stories about that race over the weekend, thanks in
large part to former Congressman Beto
O’Rourke’s involvement. Sen. Elizabeth Warren endorsed the Democrat
yesterday, becoming the latest of the White House contender to
take an interest in West Houston and Katy.
The two other races – in
Houston and Dallas – feature Republicans trying to make inroads in one district
and a Democratic intraparty fight in another.
In that Fort Bend race,
both candidates were the beneficiaries of large in-kind donations.
By James Russell
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